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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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George Eliot: [T]here is one...

George Eliot: [T]here is one...

[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Mark Twain: Habit is habit,...

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a...

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Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Source: (Bunsby)...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

I'm Gormed - and I can't say no fairer than that!

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David...

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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'.

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Charles Dickens: Oh the nerves,...

Charles Dickens: Oh the nerves,...

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures...

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Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Barkis is willin'.

Source: David Copperfield, Ch. 5
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7...

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Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things...

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Charles Dickens: Electric communication will...

Charles Dickens: Electric communication will...

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another...

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Charles Dickens: A man in...

Charles Dickens: A man in...

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of...

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Charles Dickens: Every baby born...

Charles Dickens: Every baby born...

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

Source: Nicholas...

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Charles Dickens: Yes I have...

Charles Dickens: Yes I have...

Yes I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it. If they was a pair o' patent double million magnifyin'...

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Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on...

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Charles Dickens: What a world...

Charles Dickens: What a world...

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

Source: (Miss Mowcher)...

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